From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 5 23:38:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EC937B416 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1610oa-00073Z-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 06 Nov 2001 07:38:32 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 9E3F7FC5; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:36:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:36:44 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling FreeBSD on Linux Message-ID: <20011106083644.A2190@raggedclown.net> References: <01cb01c1668e$1cea7080$4e05720a@wipro.com> <20011106175916.V35710@k7.mavetju.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011106175916.V35710@k7.mavetju.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:59:16PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:11:46PM +0530, Venkata Rajesh Velamakanni wrote: > > Recently I have downloaded FreeBSD and tried compiling sbin/routed > > on a Linux machine. > > > > But I could not compile it as the Makefile syntax is slightly different. > > > > Does anyone know an option in make, which is compatible with FreeBSD.. > > or do I need to modify these makefiles. > > I can tell you that... > ... the *BSD Makefiles have a slightly different syntax than the GNU Makefiles > ... the *BSD code will have non-linux-supported code in it > ... you should have more luck on using a routed which was > shipped with your original Linux distribution, for example for Red > Hat: http://www.redhat.com/swr/src/routed-0.17-6.src.html > > Edwin > Edwin is right of course ! Doubly right on anything to do with "system" level things like networking. There is a version of FreeBSD make available for Linux I believe, if you are hell bent on wasting your time. I believe it goes under the name of "pmake". -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message